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The efficient, accurate, and sustainable solution
to monitor vegetation communities over space and time.
1. Capture images
1. Capture images
Drone deployed to capture hundreds of vegetation photo-quadrats. The drone records its exact geographical and camera position for future revisits.
2. Identify species
2. Identify species
AI image recognition identifies, counts, and estimates the percentage cover of plant species in each photo-quadrat.
3. Site metrics
3. Site metrics
Comprehensive analyses describe local plant community, habitat type and habitat condition.
4. Revisit
4. Revisit
Steps 1-3 are repeated each year to test for statistically significant changes in the plant community, habitat type and habitat condition.
Monitoring programmes
Monitoring programmes
Detailed monitoring package: One visit in May for Spring-flowering plants and one visit in August for summer-flowering plants, repeated annually.
Standard monitoring package: One visit repeated annually. Visit month dependent on local habitat context.
Light monitoring package: One visit repeated every two years. Visit month dependent on local habitat context.
Nature markets monitoring package: One baseline visit, with repeat visits in years 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50. Suited to MRV for nature markets.
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